General "Stonewall" Jackson was much admired in England by the wealthy cotton manufacturers supporting the C.S.A., and his death had produced a romantic reaction.  At a meeting in Sheffield, led by a city alderman, motions were passed to send heartfelt condolences to Jackson's widow and to his troops.  Elsewhere, a subcription was begun for a statue to be executed and presented to the Confederacy and flags were flown at half-staff by mill-owners at Stockport in Lancashire. The statue was finally unveiled in Richmond in 1875.  (By John Osborne)

After a successful six months in the Caribbean, the Confederate commerce raider Alabama moved its operations in February 1863 to the islands off Brazil to continue to disrupt U.S. maritime trade. The Amazonian was one of the twenty-nine ships she seized during this period. The 480-ton New York bark  was bound from Boston to Montevideo in Uruguay with a cargo of oil and varnish that made a spectacular fire when, as usual, the Alabama took off what she could use and burned the captured vessel. (By John Osborne)

Philadelphia Democrats held a very large public meeting in Independence Square in the city to protest the actions of the federal government, particularly in the case of Clement Vallandigham. Ellis Lewis was elected to the chair and he presided over a series of bitter speeches from men like former state governor William Bigler and leading Philadelphians. The angry gathering nevertheless agreed that the solution to what was seen as an attack on the Constitution lay in the ballot box and Democrat victory in the fall elections.  (By John Osborne)